Having a collection of mismatched frames can be a bit overwhelming, but this technique of hanging photos makes it easy to make changes before you put unnecessary holes in your wall. We bought our house over four years ago and still had a big blank space on the wall in our living room. When we… Continue reading Gallery Wall – Turning your house into a home
For just about $30 and some tools you probably already have at home, you can make yourself a sweet little pressurized portable shower in less than an hour. We use our sprayer at the beach, while we are camping, and in places of our garden that are a pain to reach with a regular hose.… Continue reading How to Make Your Own DIY Beach/Camping Shower
The quick answer is to grow slowly. Pick one or two things to work on each season that will fit within your budget. You don't need to grow and produce everything on your own, start small, support other farms, greenhouses, and homesteads and you will find yourself growing more and more self sufficient. While we… Continue reading Starting a Productive Garden without Spending Heaps of Money or Having Acreage
Learning to make pizza from scratch has saved us hundreds of dollars… The other night I got caught up playing some games with our family and quickly realized that I didn’t have time to make the dinner that I had planned before everyone would go into full hungry meltdown mode. I was able to get… Continue reading The Joys of Scratch Cooking: 30 Minute Pizza Dough Recipe
We are getting into garden planting season, and those big bags of quality compost can sure add up on the $$$ front. One cubic foot of quality compost around here can run up to $15 if you aren't buying in bulk! Just topping of your beds can cost a pretty penny. Building and maintaining your own… Continue reading A Quick and Easy Guide to Get You Started with Composting – Do’s and Don’ts of Composting – Composting Quickie – Lazy Composting
Learning to cook and bake from scratch is an essential part of the homesteading journey, and it is a huge step towards self sufficiency. It is simultaneously one of the easiest and most difficult parts as well. Developing a skill set in the kitchen will set you up for easy and stress free meal times… Continue reading Benefits of Cooking from Scratch and 5 Ideas to Teach Yourself How!
Garlic wears many hats: my favorite food, a member of the Allium family, a spice, a medicine, a dietary supplement, and has been used for thousands of years in many cultures in both cooking and healing. Garlic is an ingredient that I rarely follow the amount listed on a recipe. I fully believe that it… Continue reading Garlic is divine…
I really like to keep this blog filled with tips, tricks, and ideas to help you better your homestead, or to help you move further along in your homesteading dreams, but today I thought I would share with you the big step that our family has taken to do just that. My life has often… Continue reading More time on the homestead!
Hardening off your seedlings is an an important step in gardening if you have started your plants from seeds indoors. So let's chat a bit about the hows and the whys. There are some affiliate links in this article. Clicking on these links does not cost you any extra money, but helps give us a… Continue reading How to Start Seeds, “Harden Off,” and Plant Your Seedlings!
If the last three years has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that we need to take steps to rely more on ourselves and less on corporations. We need to be producers over consumers. There are some affiliate links in this article. Clicking on these links does not cost you any extra money,… Continue reading The Modern Urban Homesteading Movement Towards Self-Reliance and Self-Sufficiency
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